A triple down the Memphis line

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West Tenn is coming through for the Big Orange................Go Vols !!!!! Thank God for Jeremy Pruitt. We have been losing all our great(not good) players from Memphis to the likes of Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss State and close schools to the Memphis area. West Tenn players have not even hardly been considering the Vols. I hope Pruitt now has a solid connection with the Memphis players !!! We have got to start keeping our 4 star players (in state) at home !!!!!
 
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To all Vol fans in the Knoxville area........Memphis is from the extreme western part of the State of Tenn all the way to the extreme eastern part of the state. It takes me literally all day to get from Reelfoot Lake (Lake County Tenn) to Knoxville. This is why all the players from West Tenn go to Ole Miss, Memphis, Arkansas, Alabama, Miss State..............they are all closer to West Tenn than is Knoxville !!!! ............For example, I can be in the States of Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, and nearly Alabama within 45min. to an hour from my home at Reelfoot Lake. I am literally 30 mins. from Kentucky. Missouri, as a crow flies, right across the Mississippi River about 30 mins to cross the river. So........yall have an idea why we lose players to other schools. I can be in Starkville Miss much quicker than I can be in Knoxville Tenn. Ole Miss and Miss State are in Memphis Tenn backyard. As a matter of fact one would never know when he leaves Memphis Tenn and enters Southaven Miss. or Memphis Tenn and enters West Memphis Arkansas , which is literally across a bridge.
 
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ReelfootVol said:
To all Vol fans in the Knoxville area........Memphis is from the extreme western part of the State of Tenn all the way to the extreme eastern part of the state. It takes me literally all day to get from Reelfoot Lake (Lake County Tenn) to Knoxville. This is why all the players from West Tenn go to Ole Miss, Memphis, Arkansas, Alabama, Miss State..............they are all closer to West Tenn than is Knoxville !!!! ............For example, I can be in the States of Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, and nearly Alabama within 45min. to an hour from my home at Reelfoot Lake. I am literally 30 mins. from Kentucky. Missouri, as a crow flies, right across the Mississippi River about 30 mins to cross the river. So........yall have an idea why we lose players to other schools. I can be in Starkville Miss much quicker than I can be in Knoxville Tenn.
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As they say, Bristol is closer to Canada than to Memphis...

It's a geographical oddity.
 
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ReelfootVol said:
To all Vol fans in the Knoxville area........Memphis is from the extreme western part of the State of Tenn all the way to the extreme eastern part of the state. It takes me literally all day to get from Reelfoot Lake (Lake County Tenn) to Knoxville. This is why all the players from West Tenn go to Ole Miss, Memphis, Arkansas, Alabama, Miss State..............they are all closer to West Tenn than is Knoxville !!!! ............For example, I can be in the States of Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, and nearly Alabama within 45min. to an hour from my home at Reelfoot Lake. I am literally 30 mins. from Kentucky. Missouri, as a crow flies, right across the Mississippi River about 30 mins to cross the river. So........yall have an idea why we lose players to other schools. I can be in Starkville Miss much quicker than I can be in Knoxville Tenn. Ole Miss and Miss State are in Memphis Tenn backyard. As a matter of fact one would never know when he leaves Memphis Tenn and enters Southaven Miss. or Memphis Tenn and enters West Memphis Arkansas , which is literally across a bridge.
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Why would ANYONE want to do that?
 
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As a former volunteer HS asst. coach in Memphis area, I know many of the coaches in the Memphis area and each of them say that Pruitt has been more active in Memphis than any UT coach in their lifetimes and it appears to be paying off. I had heard that opposite from some Nashville area coaches this time last year but that tune has changed as well...
 
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indian rick said:
We just got 3 big commitments McDonald, French, Eason from 3 of 4 big time Memphis players, now if we can get Whitehead we homer breaking thru in west Tennessee with a walk off .
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It will be incredible for Tennessee if Jeremy Pruitt and his staff can make Tennessee a strong player in Memphis and West Tennessee football recruiting:cool:
 
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Model12 said:
As they say, Bristol is closer to Canada than to Memphis...

It's a geographical oddity.
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It is indeed.

Things that are closer to Memphis than Knoxville:
- The entire state of Mississippi
- The entire state of Arkansas
- The vast majority of Alabama
- Three-quarters of Missouri
- More than half of Louisiana
- Atlanta, Louisville, St Louis, Nashville, Shreveport, Mobile, and a host of other cities
- Perhaps most significantly in this thread, eight (over half) of the SEC campuses


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Though Memphis is certainly part of this great state, it's not a given for young folks who live there to want to go to Knoxville over the closer alternatives.

This is an awesome power play by Pruitt & Co., pulling in these three young men. Hopefully a basis for more to come from our Mississippi Delta city in the future.

Go Vols!
 
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